Biostatistics I - Health Data Analysis

Objectives

After this unit, students should be able to:
1. To Understand the importance of the use of statistics in designing research projects.
2. To distinguish the various types of variables and measurement scales.
3. To Use appropriately Exploratory Analysis and Descriptive Statistics concepts
4. To Apply the concepts of point and interval estimation.
5. To Know how to decide between parametric and nonparametric tests in international health applications.
6. To Distinguish the concepts of correlation and association and how to apply them in real life cases.
7. To use and to analyze the outputs from SPSS or other statistical software.
8. To Use in a responsible way SPSS or other complementary programs.

General characterization

Code

5788001

Credits

3

Responsible teacher

Luzia Gonçalves

Hours

Weekly - 6,5

Total - 46

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Not applicable

Bibliography

• Armitage P., Berry G. Statistical Methods for Medical Research, 4rd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Science Ltd. 2005.
• Bland, M., An Introduction to Medical Statistics, 3rd Edition, Oxford University Press.
• Douglas G. Altman. Practical Statistics for Medical Research, Chapman and Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science.
• G. Cunha, M. Rosário Martins, R. Sousa, F. Ferraz Oliveira. Estatística Aplicada às Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde, Editora LIDEL.
• J Martin Bland, Douglas G. Altman, Statistical Notes, BMJ.

Teaching method

Lectures and tutorials. The classroom sessions will be theoretical and practical, involving the analysis of on-the databases through the use of statistical programs such as SPSS.

Evaluation method

Two individual works with oral defense.

Subject matter

I. Introduction: What it is the statistics and its importance in International Health Research; Classification of Variables and Measurement Scales; Stages of Statistical Analysis Process, Organization and presentation of data.
II. Descriptive Statistics: Location Measures (Mean, Mode, Median); Dispersion measures (variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation).
III. Main distributions; sampling distributions and Central Limit Theorem.
IV. Introduction to Inferential Statistics: Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing.
V. Linear Correlation and Association
VI. Parametric and non-parametric tests: Parametric tests: testing the mea between two groups; Paired samples and independent samples; Nonparametric tests: median equality test for two or more groups